Managing for Ethics and Social Responsibility in a Global Environment

File: ch11.rtf, Chapter 11, Managing for Ethics and Social Responsibility in a Global Environment

True/False

1. Spouses of high level expatriate managers generally serve in a corporate “ambassador” role.

Ans: True
Response: See page 400.
Difficulty: Easy

2. Fluency in a foreign language assists with verbal communication, but helps little in understanding the culture.

Ans: False
Response: See page 401.
Difficulty: Easy

3. Visitors to another culture will notice things that are important at home but that may not be important in the target culture.

Ans: True
Response: See page 404.
Difficulty: Easy

4. If we understand how people think and behave in their native environment, we will understand how a particular group will behave in relation to cultural outsiders.

Ans: False
Response: See page 404.
Difficulty: Medium

5. The term cultural intelligence (CQ) has been used to describe an individual’s ability to be effective in cross-cultural situations.

Ans.: True
Response: See page 400
Difficulty: Medium

6. Ethical issues are universal and do not vary from culture to culture.

Ans: False
Response: See page 411.
Difficulty: Easy

7. Although bribes are an accepted part of commercial transactions in many Asian, African, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries, it is usually against the law in these very same countries.

Ans: True
Response: See page 407.
Difficulty: Medium

8. The Golden Rule (“do unto others as you would have them do unto you”) appears in the teachings of every major world religion.

Ans: True
Response: See page 412.
Difficulty: Easy

9. Justice and fairness are universal human values. Therefore, specific beliefs and preferences about what is a fair allocation are also universally interdependent.

Ans: False
Response: See page 412.
Difficulty: Medium

10. A country’s sociopolitical environment increases the number of ethical questions